More doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine have arrived in Australia as the early stages of the jab rollout continue.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese and Greens leader Adam Bandt have received their first dose of the vaccine in Canberra, in a bid to boost public confidence.
Labor MP Peta Murphy, who has metastatic breast cancer, also got the vaccine.
"I wouldn't ask anyone to do something I'm not prepared to do," she later posted to Twitter.
"If you have concerns, talk to your treating doctors. I did and I am confident it is safe to take the vaccine.
"Do it for yourself, do it for the community."
Prime Minister and says he hasn't had any side effects other than a sore arm.
Health Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed another 166,000 doses of Pfizer have landed in Sydney, with another 120,000 to arrive next week.
Frontline health and hotel quarantine workers across the country have begun receiving the vaccine, along with aged and disability care residents and staff.
Most Australians will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine, with doses either made in Victoria and arriving from overseas.
The United Kingdom is well advanced in its rollout of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.
Mr Hunt said UK authorities were pleased with how the rollout was going.
"The results of both vaccines are exceeding expectations," he told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
As more Australians receive vaccines against coronavirus, authorities are looking at how and when restrictions can be eased.
Expectations are rising more Australians will be allowed to return home from overseas in coming months as the vaccine rollout progresses.
About 40,000 Australians are seeking to return, but arrival caps and limited quarantine capacity mean they cannot do so.
Chief nurse Alison McMillan is in the Northern Territory for discussions on a further expansion of the Howard Springs facility outside Darwin.
Its capacity has already been increased from 500 to 850 a fortnight but a deal on a further expansion is understood to be very close.
Concerns about capital city hotels has prompted another rethink of quarantine accommodation for international arrivals, with Victorian authorities looking at building a facility outside of Melbourne.
The federal and Queensland governments are also looking at the potential for a purpose-built quarantine facility in Toowoomba.
And a task force led by the head of the prime minister's department Phil Gaetjens is leading work on changes to quarantine arrangements.
Over 211,000 people have returned to Australia through quarantine hotels since March last year.
On Monday, Australia recorded another day without community transmission of the virus.
South Australia is poised to lift its remaining COVID-19 travel restrictions with Melbourne from Thursday.
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